What does flower-of-an-hour mean?

flower-of-an-hour means "annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America".

How many syllables are in flower-of-an-hour?

flower-of-an-hour has 5 syllables and divides as flo-we-r-o-f-an--hour under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for flower-of-an-hour?

Close synonyms include flowers-of-an-hour, bladder ketmia, black-eyed Susan, Hibiscus trionum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flower-of-an-hour a common word?

flower-of-an-hour is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Flower-of-an-hour — meaning and 4 synonyms

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America
Synonymsflowers-of-an-hour bladder ketmia black-eyed Susan Hibiscus trionum
Broaderhibiscus

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What does flower-of-an-hour mean?: flower-of-an-hour means "annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America".

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